Welcome to the second of my restyled monthly reviews. Hopefully WordPress won’t attempt to sabotage this one like they did with the first: they left it out of the Reader! I’m not a great fan of the Reader but follow my own blog just to check that my posts are in it. A useful tip if you don’t already do that yourself. But I don’t then ‘like’ my own posts too – I leave that to you!
So, what did I treat you with last month? Well, I arrived in your inbox thirteen times, all bar one of which were music posts – old habits die hard! As usual, there were my two regulars, the first of which was
Tuesday Tunes
There were four of these, and they were:
As I did last time, I’m playing you one of my favourite songs from those posts:
That was the excellent Elles Bailey, with Leave The Light On, which I played in episode 265. My apologies to Pete, who didn’t like the dancers, Antonia Latz and Lyndon J E Dasilva. I loved them and the video as a whole, and that’s my excuse for playing it again!
There were five Sundays last month, which meant five posts for my other regular – my contribution to
Song Lyric Sunday
The five posts were:
And as is my new way, I’m reprising one of the songs I played in those:
The Hound + The Fox with their beautiful version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, with all five verses! I”ll leave it to you to work out which post that was in (there’s a big clue in the title!).
That leave the four others, three of which were music pieces. The first of these was
in which I played some songs especially written for the 200th anniversary of the UK’s first public rail passenger service driven by steam engines. These are all very moving – hankies at the ready if you take another look!
Then came one of my occasional series, with
That album was the eponymous debut by Crosby Stills & Nash, and it was well received – many of you agreed with me that it is indeed a classic.
The other music post was
not my snappiest or most imaginative title, but it did exactly what it said on the tin.
A favourite song from these would be this one:
Lewis Capaldi, of course, with Survive, his comeback song after a two year absence. I’m glad to see him back with us after his struggles.
And then there was the non-music post, which I wrote for John Holton’s Writer’s Workshop:
and it wouldn’t be me without a couple of tunes being dropped into it, would it? There were two, both of which I really like, but I’ve chosen this one for this review:
Fun. (their full stop, not mine) with Some Nights.
Last time I also played some songs by people who we had lost that month. Fortunately there don’t seem to have been as many departures during August, but we did lose Bobby Whitlock, a singer-songwriter who played keyboards and guitar, notably with Delaney and Bonnie, where he started out, and then in Derek and the Dominos, which he co-founded with Eric Clapton. He then went on to a long solo career. In his honour I’m playing the obvious one from his catalogue, which I think demonstrates well his keyboard skills:
R.I.P. Bobby.
And to close, how about one of my favourite August songs:
Noah Cyrus and P.J. Harding with Dear August, with Noah showing us why I think she is the most musically talented member of her family.
That was my August, then. I hope you enjoyed it with me and will revisit – September is already up and running!
See you again soon, I hope – another Song Lyric Sunday beckons. Until then, take care and be happy 😊
